Back in September, I wrote an article titled Where to turn when your DVR can’t keep up.  At the time, I was truly excited about the opportunities presented to all of us that might want to use the web as a supplemental resource for our digital video recorders (DVR).  Seven months have now flown by and we find ourselves nearing the end of the “traditional” TV season.  Lost only has 5 episodes left and the discussions on which shows will be returning next season are already underway or completed.  These last few weeks will be a bitter-sweet time for fans of any program as we approach the inevitable cliffhangers and finales.  Unfortunately, some of our recommendations in the September article were simply bitter.

We are a 2-DVR family and both of our units were put through some serious stress-testing this season.  Every so often, bad weather or a power outage caused one or both of our DVR units to miss a show, or at least a portion of it.  Being the true television fans that we are, we didn’t want to miss out on important plot-lines and details, so we headed out to the world wide web, in search of the episode in question.  In almost every situation, we found the solution on the web site of the television station itself.  There were however a few situations that required additional searching.  That’s where the fun really started.

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